Read the play instead
- 06.June.2011
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- by: Emily
- Emily rated this movie6/10Okay
Read the play instead
I thought that the play was much better than the movie.
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SPOILER ALERT......The priest Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) shows interest in the first African American student in a Bronx Catholic school in the 1960's. Sister Aloysiius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) believes that the relationship to be...
- 10.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
- Netflowers rated this movie0/10
SPOILER ALERT......The priest Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) shows interest in the first African American student in a Bronx Catholic school in the 1960's. Sister Aloysiius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) believes that the relationship to be improper. She has nothing to go on, just her belief that all is not well. Sister Aloysius wants Father Flynn to resign, and she forces the issue by insinuating that she has information on the Father's previous postings where he had previous improper relationships with students. She had no such information, Father Flynn resigns, therefore confirming Sister Aloysius's suspicions, and in her mind proving that she was correct all along. I gave it 5***** STARS
- 10.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
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What a pleasant surprise to be so entertained by this. The tension is palpable as Streep and Hoffman trade verbal jabs and kicks to the nether regions. Some fantastic tit for tat moments such as "Do you have no compassion?" - "You'll never find it."...
- 17.December.2010
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- by: tapwater
- tapwater rated this movie
 10/10Must See
What a pleasant surprise to be so entertained by this. The tension is palpable as Streep and Hoffman trade verbal jabs and kicks to the nether regions. Some fantastic tit for tat moments such as "Do you have no compassion?" - "You'll never find it." Take that, you fruity friar! Despite the subject matter, I found myself smiling and even laughing sometimes after such exchanges. I'm almost inclined to accuse my neighbor of touching my cat inappropriately, Streep makes it look like so much fun.
- 17.December.2010
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- by: tapwater
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Doubt is one of those movies you think about for a while. As more and more people you know see it, you start asking, What did you think? No matter what they say, your response is, Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you know what I think.... There is no real...
- 04.August.2010
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- by: Dan Cassavaugh
- Dan Cassavaugh rated this movie0/10
Doubt is one of those movies you think about for a while. As more and more people you know see it, you start asking, What did you think? No matter what they say, your response is, Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you know what I think.... There is no real resolution to this movie. It exists to create discussion. Audience members can discuss religion, priest-child relationships, mother-son relationships, what's really going on with Aloysius, and of course, did Father Flynn actually touch a boy?
No matter to whom you talk, their answers and reasoning won't be same as yours. Doubt succeeds at making us think. It makes us believe our own assumptions about the characters in an attempt to understand the film.
There aren't right or wrong answers about the movie, there's just discourse. Can you convince the person next to you that you're correct? We become Sister Aloysius believing our own lies and stopping at nothing to convince everyone around us they're facts. Four stars.
- 04.August.2010
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- by: Dan Cassavaugh
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I put this off for a long time: the big movie everybody flocks to and clucks approvingly about. I thought this would be a routine production on numerous counts: 1) a stagey, talky play transferred to film, 2) sad and pompous subject with little...
- 29.March.2010
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- by: Democritus
- Democritus rated this movie0/10
I put this off for a long time: the big movie everybody flocks to and clucks approvingly about. I thought this would be a routine production on numerous counts: 1) a stagey, talky play transferred to film, 2) sad and pompous subject with little cinematic look-appeal, and even less grit and humor, and 3) big predictable "star" performances. I was wrong on all three counts. In part because the writer-director cleverly placed the school setting around an outdoor courtyard, and filled the hallways with lots of glass-walled outdoor light---the opposite of a dark, closed stage. But mainly because it is an intelligent non-preachy look at growing up for the kids in 1960s Catholic schools and the Church and U.S. society also maturing. Hoffman is fine and subtle, and Streep gives a great, mostly selfless non-vain performance of a working class New York nun. I have a slight complaint with the very end when they seem too intent on giving some ambivalent sympathy to her character in a way that seems a bit contrived, but I enjoyed the movie pleasures of this one almost without other reservation, even if I thought it unnecessary to make the boy's father's disapproval take the form of beatings rather than something more common and less politically sure to outrage. Contemporary (although placed in 1964 of course) religious movies tend to date a bit, and this one may too---maybe in sixty years this will look as benevolently transparent, or even facile, as "Going My Way"! But I'll still give it 4.5 stars---exactly what Netfl:x predicted I would give it, interestingly. 6.09
- 29.March.2010
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- by: Democritus
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This adaptation of the John Patrick Shanley play of the same name follows Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep, giving a performance that'll certainly nab her a 15th Oscar Nomintation) fears that Father Flynn (The equally talented Phillip Seymour Hoffman)...
- 12.October.2009
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- by: Daniel Valdez
- Daniel Valdez rated this movie7/10Good
This adaptation of the John Patrick Shanley play of the same name follows Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep, giving a performance that'll certainly nab her a 15th Oscar Nomintation) fears that Father Flynn (The equally talented Phillip Seymour Hoffman) has abused a young African-american student.
The film's main bulletpoint is the performances of the two actors mentioned above, as well as those of Viola Davis and Amy Adams.
The film has a few differences from the play, and it's not for everyone, but if you can look past that, you're looking at a serious Oscar contender.
- 12.October.2009
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- by: Daniel Valdez
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There is not a wasted word, superfluous scene, or extraneous camera shot in all of "DOUBT," making it one of the most concentrated, intense films you'll see in a long time. Its themes and characters, while fixed vividly in a 1960s NYC Catholic...
- 16.April.2009
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- by: Vic
- Vic rated this movie10/10Must See
There is not a wasted word, superfluous scene, or extraneous camera shot in all of "DOUBT," making it one of the most concentrated, intense films you'll see in a long time. Its themes and characters, while fixed vividly in a 1960s NYC Catholic school, transcend their setting and become universal. And rarely is acting this top-notch; virtually every performer is totally credible and moving, absolutely realistic and yet poetically indelible. Don't be put off by reviews complaining about ambiguity, staginess, or asserting that the film wants to have it both ways; they're nonsense. "DOUBT" is one of the best films you'll see all year. The DVD contains two long-winded making-of videos and an excellent short on the real Sisters of Charity order of nuns depicted in the movie.
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